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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 5
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The judgment of Jerusalem shall include famine, pestilence, war, and the scattering of her inhabitants.
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And</span> thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause <i>it</i> to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the <i>hair.</i>
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Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, <i>and</i> smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 12: 14.">sword</a> after them.
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Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
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Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; <i>for</i> thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
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&#182; Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; This <i>is</i> Jerusalem: I have set it in the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 21: 6; Alma 4: 11; Alma 39: 11; D&C 103: 9 (8-9).">midst</a> of the nations and countries <i>that are</i> round about her.
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And she hath changed my judgments into <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 24: 30.">wickedness</a> more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that <i>are</i> round about her: for they have <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/5/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 1: 19 (18-20); 1 Ne. 2: 13; 1 Ne. 7: 14.">refused</a> my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that <i>are</i> round about you, <i>and</i> have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 11: 12.">judgments</a>, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that <i>are</i> round about you;
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Behold, I, even I, <i>am</i> against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 42: 91.">sight</a> of the nations.
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And I will do in thee that which I have not <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Dan. 9: 12.">done</a>, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/5/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 29: 21.">abominations</a>.
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Therefore the fathers shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 19: 9; Lam. 2: 20.">eat</a> the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/5/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">scatter</a> into all the winds.
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Wherefore, <i>as</i> I live, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Surely, because thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sacrilege.">defiled</a> my sanctuary with all thy <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/5/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">detestable</a> things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/5/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 8: 19 (18-20).">diminish</a> <i>thee;</i> neither shall mine eye <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/5/11d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 4; Ezek. 20: 17.">spare</a>, neither will I have any pity.
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&#182; A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
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Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 24: 13 (13-14).">I</a> will cause my <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/5/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 21: 17; Ezek. 38: 18.">fury</a> to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/5/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 20: 36.">spoken</a> <i>it</i> in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
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Moreover I will make thee <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 31; Neh. 2: 17.">waste</a>, and a <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/5/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 22: 4.">reproach</a> among the nations that <i>are</i> round about thee, in the sight of all that <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/5/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 15.">pass</a> by.
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So it shall be a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 24: 9.">reproach</a> and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that <i>are</i> round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes.  I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have spoken <i>it.</i>
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When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for <i>their</i> destruction, <i>and</i> which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
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So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/5/17a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE deprive of children; Ezek. 36: 13 (8-15).">bereave</a> thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/5/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 14: 21; Ezek. 33: 27; Rev. 6: 8.">sword</a> upon thee.  I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have spoken <i>it.</i>
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